Dr Anna Birney (LinkedIn, Medium, Twitter) is Director of School of System Change and Global Director of Systems Change Learning at Forum for the Future.

Our conversation was at the start of February 2022, and the connection wasn't great, so the sound is a little muddy. Apologies.

Key quote: "If we teach system practices, we create the conditions for which society can continually address the challenges that it faces, then we can actually work with the world as it is at the moment."

Links

The conversation uses the word 'systems' a lot. Here is a Medium post from Anna on systems practices which includes: "A system might be defined as a collection of interacting parts organised as a whole to do something."

Timings

1:00 - Q1 What are you doing now? And how did you get there?
5:05 - Q2. What is the future you are trying to create, and why?
8:28 - Q3. What are your priorities for the next few years, and why?
11:47 - Q4. If someone was inspired to follow those priorities, what should they do next?
13:37 - BONUS QUESTION: What is it that people can be doing that can help them to find work that gives then a sense of aliveness?
16:08 - Q5. If your younger self was starting their career now, what advice would you give them?
17:26 - Q6. Who would you nominate to answer these questions, because you admire their approach?
19:00 - Q7. Is there anything else important you feel you have to say?

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